Develop Bugs

[Q] static evo wallpaper single screen

Hello,
I am using launcher pro and have my disable wallpaper scrolling checked.
I would like to have wallpapers that just fit inside the one home screen and don't get mutilated by my phone when I set them.
I have tried GIMP to resize the image, but then I get a box to chose a portion of the image.
When I set it, the image gets enlarged to fill the whole screen.
I know, it is probably me... anybody have any words of wisdom?
Thanks,
Chris

Unfortunately I dont think this can be done (easily). I do the same (no scrolling) and always have to get big wallpapers to fit the whole widescreen even though I'm only using the one home screen. You can use multi screen wallpaper from the market. Its a live wallpaper that lets you choose images for each screen and it does it in the correct format (480x800)...
Swyped from my HTC Evo 4G on the MetroPCS 1X network!

This is a really wierd way to do it but I have found it effective. I would like it if there was an easier way.
I use the launcher from the Incdoes Acer Liquid E port.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=811440
The launcher apk is in there somewhere.
Basically what I do is when either sense or launcher pro is up I hit the home button and select the acer "home" and there the wallpaper is fixed. Then I hit home again and select as default either sense or launcher pro and it is fixed. From there you can change your wallpaper and it wont scroll. Hopefully if you download it you can see what I am talking about. It will work until you restart the phone. Then you have to do it again.

Thanks... This is what I find kind of annoying about the phone.
You should be able to have a wallpaper centered, with a boarder around it.... without having the phone/OS forcing it to fill the whole screen and making it blurry.
Thanks to all..
Cheers,
Chris

[APP]homescreen 3D cube(and more)with MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and Launcher Pro

FOR THE USERS WHO JUST WANT TO SEE THE VIDEO DEMO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZHIH7F0Z4g
Have you had an LG phone like the BL-40 Chocolate or the KP-500 cookie before with that cool 3d cube thingy, and wish you had the same for your android phone? Well, here's something that closely resembles that.
The chocolate had 2 home screens, and the wallpaper can be set differently for the two screens. When i bought the galaxy s, my very first android phone, i hoped that it had a similar thing, only now with 7 home screens to fill widgets with. Sadly, it didn't come with that feature (although the live wallpapers was a cool alternative).
And then i came across MultiPicture Live Wallpaper (free on the market) that let me set a different picture for each homescreen. AND it came with some AWESOME screen transitions. Also, you are not limited to just one picture, you can set a whole album to be shuffled for each homescreen. Cool yeah?
So i was impressed with that. Then I saw that launcher pro was having an update. In the newest version, Fede included some cool transition effects so I immediately updated and tried it out.
I don't know if it was fate or what, but the transition effects of the live wallpaper and launcher pro really work great together. Now my phone looks cooler than before!
IMPORTANT THINGS TO TAKE NOTE BEFORE TRYING THIS OUT:
Scrolling speed is different for the live wallpaper and the launcher, so i recommend playing with the minimum scrolling speed setting of launcher pro (launcher pro settings > advanced settings > minimum scrolling speed). If you find the wallpaper lagging behind your widgets/shortcuts, try setting the scroll speed to faster speed until they are in sync when scrolling.
IF MULTIPICTURE LIVE WALLPAPER FROM THE MARKET DOESN'T WORK AS IT SHOULD, OR IF IT LAGS TRY THIS OLD VERSION THAT I HAVE.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16398746/Apps Backup/MultiPicture Live Wallpaper.0.4.8.apk
If this solves your problem good for you. If it doesn't, well it sucks to be you. LOL
people are reporting that in Darky's v9 this wallpaper doesn't work properly.. haven't tried it though since im in v8.1.. people on V9, please try the old version and report back if it works.. thanks..
neilbantoc said:
If it's lagging, here are a few tips you could try.
1. Reduce pictures to your screen's size.. My screen is 800x480 so I resized my pictures to that size.. The file size of the picture may have an impact on the performance of the live wallpaper, so keeping it as small as possible may help speed things up..
2. Swipe your finger as slow and as short as possible.. I don't remember if I did this in the video, but whenever I swipe my finger, I do it slowly and my finger touches the screen for about half an inch.. This helps slow things down by registering a slow homescreen swipe..
3. Try less hardware intensive but visually unimpressive transitions.. My personal favorites are wipe, card and swap.. Wipe is the fastest for me..
4. Contact the developer and see if you could help out.. Im not the developer of the live wallpaper so I can't really do anything to improve it from a programmer's point of view..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
BE SURE TO UNCHECK THE DISABLE WALLPAPER SCROLLING OPTION IN LAUNCHER PRO. go to launcher pro settings > appearance settings > disable wallpaper scrolling. Naturally if you leave that setting on, your wallpaper won't scroll.
YOU DON'T NEED TO USE BOTH THE LAUNCHER AND THE LIVE WALLPAPER. You can use a different Launcher on MPLW, and a different Wallpaper on Launcher Pro. But do take note that you can't have the launcher transition effects in a different launcher, and the Live Wallpaper transition effects in the live wallpaper..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Here's how to create the same setup
1. Download launcher pro. It's free and i believe the transition effects come with the free version.
2. Customize to your hearts content. Place widgets, shortcuts, etc just fill the homescreen with content so that you can see the effect.
3. Select transition effect. Press the context menu button while on your homescreen > preferences > homescreen settings > transition effect.
4. Download Multipicture Live Wallpaper and set it as your wallpaper
5. Set a picture for each homescreen. You can even set a whole folder to shuffle pictures from.
6. Set the transition effect that you want to go with your launcher pro transition effect. Press the context menu while on your homescreen>wallpaper>configure.
7. Enjoy!
Tip - go to launcher pro settings > advanced settings > minimum scrolling speed, then set it to 0.. it will slower the swipe speed (provided that you swiped your finger slowly as well)
Transition effects that go nicely with each other as shown in the video:
LP - Cube
MPLW - Cube
LP - Scale
MPLW - Swap
LP - Flip
MPLW - Swing
Not shown in video:
LP - Cube
MPLW - Wipe
LP - Rotation
MPLW - Card

Very nice effects. Thanks!!!

Ok im using a galaxy S with darkyys rom 9.0 and Voodoo 5.2 kernel.
Im using the latest launcher pro plus 0.8.3.
I download the app and go into setings and set individual settings for each screen, but when i go back to the homescreen it says no picture available please set picture on a black screen.
I cant double tap any of the homescreens to set a picture either.
I have noticed from some looking around that you have to go into default settings and pick screen type... but i have no default settings on my app or i cant figure out how to get into it.
Please help me set this up properly!!!

cabessius said:
Very nice effects. Thanks!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Glad you liked it.

Nice FMA song in background
About Multiwallpaper just awesome

zolah said:
Ok im using a galaxy S with darkyys rom 9.0 and Voodoo 5.2 kernel.
Im using the latest launcher pro plus 0.8.3.
I download the app and go into setings and set individual settings for each screen, but when i go back to the homescreen it says no picture available please set picture on a black screen.
I cant double tap any of the homescreens to set a picture either.
I have noticed from some looking around that you have to go into default settings and pick screen type... but i have no default settings on my app or i cant figure out how to get into it.
Please help me set this up properly!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I heard darky v9 was buggy, that's why I settled for v8.1 ay the moment.. Anyway, I'm just your average android user, not a dev or anything but I'll try to help you out as much as I can..
First, can you post screen shots of your multi picture live wallpaper settings screen? I'll try to find a back up of my old version of that wallpaper for you to try.. I think the transition effects were included in the old versions..
EDIT: The link to the old MPLW is in the first post.. try it!
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

sedinix said:
Nice FMA song in background
About Multiwallpaper just awesome
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks.. Makes me want to watch fma all over again..
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

FMA Is great
I'm buy donate version its cheap and I hope you make more good apps
Ok im using a galaxy S with darkyys rom 9.0 and Voodoo 5.2 kernel.
Im using the latest launcher pro plus 0.8.3.
I download the app and go into setings and set individual settings for each screen, but when i go back to the homescreen it says no picture available please set picture on a black screen.
I cant double tap any of the homescreens to set a picture either.
I have noticed from some looking around that you have to go into default settings and pick screen type... but i have no default settings on my app or i cant figure out how to get into it.
Please help me set this up properly!!!
I heard darky v9 was buggy, that's why I settled for v8.1 ay the moment.. Anyway, I'm just your average android user, not a dev or anything but I'll try to help you out as much as I can..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm on darky 9,0 Voodoo same as you and all works perfect. Maybe You have some options on check LP>Appearance Settings> disable wallpaper scrolling I think that option must be unchecked
I have this on and MPLW dasn't work

*FYI* You can use this with other launchers or if you can't find the setting inside Launcher Pro to set the transition (I HAD THIS PROBLEM THE SECOND TIME AROUND) This guide will help you. If anybody is using a different launcher like me I use ADW EX you might not be able to see the transition setting inside the launcher settings. You can still set this transition. While setting multipicture live wallpaper you can go into the settings before you actually save the wallpaper, scroll down to Drawing Settings and select your desired transition under Transition Type.
Before exiting I go into each individual screen setting for example Screen 1 Settings and click on Type of Screen then select Single Picture, Select desired image from gallery and then continue to do the same for Screen 2 Settings untill I have done all of my home screen wallpapers *BE SURE TO HAVE SCROLLABLE WALLPAPER ACTIVE IN YOUR SETTINGS ELSE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO USE MULTIPICTURE WALLPAPER ****OP you might want to place all of this information in your 1st post***

Amazing! wow, thank you for sharing.. love it.. Thank you!

sedinix said:
I'm buy donate version its cheap and I hope you make more good apps
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I didn't make any of the apps.. Im just sharing what i've discovered..

uppon2 said:
*FYI* You can use this with other launchers or if you can't find the setting inside Launcher Pro to set the transition (I HAD THIS PROBLEM THE SECOND TIME AROUND)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well technically it is a live wallpaper, and live wallpapers are not tied to a launcher (at lest MPLW isn't) so yeah, you can use it with other launchers. But the point of this post was to show that the new Launcher Pro version's new feature are these transition effects, and those new effects go pretty well with the transition effects in MPLW..

neilbantoc said:
Well technically it is a live wallpaper, and live wallpapers are not tied to a launcher (at lest MPLW isn't) so yeah, you can use it with other launchers. But the point of this post was to show that the new Launcher Pro version's new feature are these transition effects, and those new effects go pretty well with the transition effects in MPLW..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It makes it seem like you need to use LP due to the nature of your original post. I was just clarifying it for the interested parties.

I have Darky`s v9.0 and it works great. Thanks

I installed the older version and it works fine now.
It loses the settings though if the phone is switched off and back on.

Ive set 5 different wallpapers to 5 different homescreens, disabled scrolling, but my wall paper isnt switching when i cange home screens, with or with out transition effect aplied in either mplw, or launcher pro plus . any ideas???

nvm .......

PacoCGN said:
I have Darky`s v9.0 and it works great. Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good to hear that..
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

zolah said:
I installed the older version and it works fine now.
It loses the settings though if the phone is switched off and back on.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well that's better than nothing.. Sorry that it couldn't work properly for you though..
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

monoxide.tryst said:
Ive set 5 different wallpapers to 5 different homescreens, disabled scrolling, but my wall paper isnt switching when i cange home screens, with or with out transition effect aplied in either mplw, or launcher pro plus . any ideas???
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That was a typo. You should leave the disable wallpaper scrolling option unchecked.. Sorry about that, I corrected the instructions..
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

home screen wallpaper zoomed in?

When I set my wallpaper and go back to the home screen, the wallpaper appears to be zoomed in and only shows the center portion very big. Lock screen is proper size, sometimes.
SOLUTION: For those of you having this problem, I found the workaround for it. Use Home Switcher and switch to Touchwiz, go to home screen and set wallpaper, it should appear the proper size now, go back to Home Switcher and switch to whatever launcher you choose and the wallpaper should stick.

OP edited with workaround

Wallpaper wizardrii app can also help, fits any wallpaper size to your home screen.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA

Using the workaround that I posted in the first post solved the issue for me without the need of any external apps.

GReddySetGO said:
Using the workaround that I posted in the first post solved the issue for me without the need of any external apps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I uninstalled the home switcher and most of the other stock apps and replaced them with the ones I use so that app is great for me and those like me.
Caulkins E4GT GB 2.9.2 bare ROM, FB27 modem, rogue gunslinger kernel on one EPIC beast of a phone.

GReddySetGO said:
When I set my wallpaper and go back to the home screen, the wallpaper appears to be zoomed in and only shows the center portion very big. Lock screen is proper size, sometimes.
SOLUTION: For those of you having this problem, I found the workaround for it. Use Home Switcher and switch to Touchwiz, go to home screen and set wallpaper, it should appear the proper size now, go back to Home Switcher and switch to whatever launcher you choose and the wallpaper should stick.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This problem will show up again later. Is there a way to permanently fix it?

Use quick pic to set the wallpaper.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk

sniper said:
Use quick pic to set the wallpaper.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
SNIPER is right QUickPic worked for me

Still, it is silly how they designed the home screen wallpaper settings. There is no reason why we can not set a picture to fit the screen by default stock out of the box. It is amazing how something so simple can be such a pain.
This is my biggest gripe about an android.
Had to vent that
E4GT Rom-a-holic. Running anything that looks cool at the time
"This is the Droid I have been looking for!"

No more forced cropping on wallpapers

The application I want to talk about is PicSpeed Wallpapers.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zcnNkZXYud2FsbHBhcGVycyJd
A promising application which offers pretty good wallpapers, in my opinion. However it is more than a simple wallpaper application... Not special in a sense where it gives you super exam cheating skills (which I so desperately need right now)... but it gives you MUCH better cropping for your wallpapers in the Gallery app .
So how do you use it and how much better is it? Well to use it start by getting a Wallpaper. So once you got that on your phone go ahead and open up the Gallery. Find and tap on the image. Now hit the menu button and select "Set picture as" (on ICS) or whatever you need to click to set a wallpaper. You will notice a pop-up comes up. The normal options would be contact photo and wallpaper (and maybe whatever else you have), but now we are introduced with the option of "Set as Wallpaper" - with the PicSpeed icon beside it. So tap it (of coarse). Underneath the image will be three images. The first (left) crops the image to use just the middle (based on dimensions) and is not a scrollable Wallpaper. The second (middle) gives you the traditional full-use of the wallpaper in a scrollable state. The one that is most interesting is the last (right) option. This one offers a custom crop. Which means you can make the wallpaper scrollable or not and perfectly set the crop to whatever you want. So once you use the right custom option go ahead and hit the set option underneath it to the far right.
I think that is amazing finally a way to break the terrible cropping options the Gallery gave us. At first when PicSpeed released an earlier version the wallpaper would auto resize and mess up the image. They have updated the app since then and I no longer have to re-set the wallpaper on boot. Another bug I noticed is I cannot set a Wallpaper 'properly' with the traditional set wallpaper function my phone offers me, after I use PicSpeed to set a "custom" crop. This is easily fixable. Go into Gallery and the set the wallpaper with PicSpeed (again) with the Wallpaper with the traditional (middle) option. Or you can just reboot your phone, either way works.
Well yeah I just wanted to share this new amazing application with you all . You're welcome all! No more terrible cropping options YAAAAY!
90% of it was written by 309041291a (thanks) in the nexus forum on xda.
If it helped please press thanks

Simpler way
I found that the Galaxy app in the S3 only crops to portrait too. Simplest way I found was to extract the Galaxy2.apk from a Nexus and install it on the S3 (or replace it entirely) and us it to set the background. You then get the portrait and landscape cropping so you can then have a decent scrollable home screen wallpaper.

Ho there gents.
Has this file been uploaded somewere.
I dont have a clue on were to start to obtain this

Overmars_om1 said:
Ho there gents.
Has this file been uploaded somewere.
I dont have a clue on were to start to obtain this
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
its in the market, link in first post

gouldy26 said:
its in the market, link in first post
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It is yes,
But Picspeed dose not make it scroll.

Overmars_om1 said:
It is yes,
But Picspeed dose not make it scroll.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You have to install a different launcher to make the scrollable background work.

May you share that galaxy2.apk please?
Thanks !
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2

Or quickpic
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2

I use wallpaper changer to change my wallpaper, doesn't crop and allows for scrollable wallpapers without needing to change anything.

Set wallpaper with Zedge app works great No cropping.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium

The most brilliant gallery is "fish bowl photo gallery".check it out, it's in the market and it's. Free,no adds.
Most cool features you're ever seen in a gallery app

ics gallery
Dawnload ics gallery and you are finished

I dont know if this thread is still active, but I have been running into issues lately with pic speed. I have used it for a while (on my original vibrant) but now im getting issues. Im trying set an image as my background and crop it. Works fine. Crops for me I get it smack dab center and everything is nice. I turn on the scroll function because I just want the static image. Spits out the image and my wallpaper is great, but as soon as I turn the phone into landscape mode, regardless if im in an app or not the image gets distorted and its annoying as balls. Can anyone help me out?

No one know about this app
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...xoDIBA&usg=AFQjCNFv0rDOUgckqV5m9qLt6zcESlfbAw
The best one
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapalk 2

How to fit wallpaper as static without stretched

I am trying to get some wallpapers to fit, when i view them they look good for the screen, but when i set them as wallpapers they get realy messed up.
I tryed alot now including apps that should resize them to fit etc.
the wallpapers i try to use is from here:
http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww2/aandrew1967/walls/#!cpZZ10QQtppZZ36
Only ones i get to work are the wide ones that are very rare.
Is there a way to fit the other wallpapers you see there, the tall normal ones ?
Hope someone can help!

Digidice said:
I am trying to get some wallpapers to fit, when i view them they look good for the screen, but when i set them as wallpapers they get realy messed up.
I tryed alot now including apps that should resize them to fit etc.
the wallpapers i try to use is from here:
http://s700.photobucket.com/albums/ww2/aandrew1967/walls/#!cpZZ10QQtppZZ36
Only ones i get to work are the wide ones that are very rare.
Is there a way to fit the other wallpapers you see there, the tall normal ones ?
Hope someone can help!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think I know what you're talking about. It's a problem with the way ICS and JB handle wallpapers.
I found that using wallpaper wizardrii or multipicture live wallpaper will do the trick.

kylec said:
I think I know what you're talking about. It's a problem with the way ICS and JB handle wallpapers.
I found that using wallpaper wizardrii or multipicture live wallpaper will do the trick.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Download 'crop wallpaper' from the gplay.

subhani said:
Download 'crop wallpaper' from the gplay.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tested crop wallpaper from play store, and selected the part i wanted to use as wallpaper, clicked set wallpaper and the picture is still stretched out and don`t look like how i selected to crop it.
Something is messing up the pics by stretching them.
Also tested the first mentioned app and that one dosen`t work eighter.
Any more ideas i can try ?

Wallpaper Wizardrii is what you need. Press 'Set' and choose 'Crop Portrait'.

if all your looking to do is set a static wallpaper and not have it scroll with screen swipe then you can only enable this on a third party launcher. Sense has a permanent wallpaper scroll and thats why it stretches those pics for you. I recommend apex where you can set static non scroll option.
Alternatively, as mentioned by first reply here, multi picture live wallpaper will also do the trick so long as you set the source folder to contain the ONE wallpaper of choice because sense forces the wallpaper to change automatically to another on screen swipe. If you only have one in the selected source folder, it should just swipe to the same paper of your choice. I may be wrong.

scream_clarity said:
Wallpaper Wizardrii is what you need. Press 'Set' and choose 'Crop Portrait'.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry that was also a no go..
Must be something that stopping me to crop the pictures, could be some function in my ROM or ST(suite Tools)
Not sure how i should solve this, maby reflash without Suite tools.

I also use apex launcher with wallpaper option set to fixed when I want my wallpaper not to scroll
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app